Awwwww! Thanks all of you guys who reviewed! It really means a lot! Honestly I didn't think anyone was actually going to read my work, blood, sweat, and tears, so It means the world. I didn't really do my best work last time!, but I'll try harder since I know people are actually reading MY stories! *JUMPS FOR JOY AND SQUEELS!* that'll never get old!

Okay, now the boring part. *Dunt, Dunt, Du-u-u-un!* that ones for you evil girl! Ok now for the disclaimer:

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Artemis Fowl characters. I chose to use them in my fan fiction story with no copy writes to me but all to Eion Colfer.

As soon as Holly and Trouble got down stairs, Holly again demanded to be put down.

"Trouble! I swear!, If you don't put me down, D'arvit!, I'll bail twenty goblins out of jail, and give them all softnose lasers, then point them in your direction! And if that doesn't work then I'll! I'll-" She yelled.

"Holls!" Trouble said in an urgent voice trying to shut her up.

"Trouble! Put me DOWN!" she yelled.

"Fine! Only if I get to stand in front of you to make sure you don't go and face plant! I'm sure the ground will love me for that", Trouble said mockingly, with a smirk on his face.

Holly squinted her eyes and glared at him. She flipped her hair back in a swift motion. She swayed unsteadily, eyes broadening. Holly gasped as she almost fell over. Trouble grabbed her by her shoulders and steadied her. He looked down the two inches to her mismatched eyes. Holly looked up slowly and tipped on to her toes as she did in the coffee shop. Just as she did, low and behold, Ashley walked to the end of the hall, and saw the two standing there, looking into each others eyes. Trouble saw her out of the corner of his eye and let Holly go. She swayed again, only this time, her eyes rolled back, and she again fell into unconsciousness. Trouble grabbed her again before she collapsed to the floor. He slowly lowered her down onto the floor.

"Trouble?" Ashley said in a squeaky voice, while taking deep breaths. "Is this what I think it is?" she dropped her designer bag, and stomped over to him in her high heels.

"Ashley, it's a co-worker, now why don't you just calm-"

"don't you dare say 'calm down' Trouble Kelp! I think you're cheating to be quite honest!"

"Ashley! Why don't you just go home for right now? I'm trying to help and I need quiet, So just go home. We'll work this out later Ashley, later"

Ashley gave a mighty 'Hrmph' then turned around, picked up her Gucci bag and clonked off

Holly's eyes fluttered back open and grasped her head. She looked up at Trouble and said sleepily, "Worst thing to say to a women Kelp, Worst thing"

"What?" he asked puzzled

"If you ever told me to 'just calm down', you know you'd so get decked" Holly said propping herself up on to her shoulders from the ground. "so the clinic am I right?"

"Um. Yeah that's right, lets go" Trouble said picking Holly up.

"Okay. One last time. Let me try and walk. If I fall." She looked up at him and said, "I know you'll catch me, Trouble" she said.

Trouble let go of her arms and watched her turn around. Trouble bit his bottom lip. He stepped next to Holly and glanced over to her blushing. Holly stood up straight and walked forward. She walked as if she hadn't ever collapsed, the only sign a slight limp, as if she could run a marathon the next minute. She also had enough speed in her step, enough speed, to seem like she was trying to subtly escape the D'arvitting fours, and get to the safety of the fives. She walked straight into the clinic with, Trouble next to her, a confused look upon his face.

"You OK Trubs?" Holly asked sarcastically, "You look pale. Do we need to get you in here too?" She smirked.

Holly sat down in front of the waiting Shaman, and looked up at him. She swung her legs back and forward, hitting the Shamans knees a few times before he stepped backwards a few feet while looking at his chart.

"So Captain, it says here you collapsed is that right?" The Shaman asked.

"Incorrect Sir, I was sitting at my desk when Trouble came in and told me to come to the clinic. I'm sorry, you must've gotten the files mixed up somehow." She smiled deviously.

The Shaman then squinted his eyes and looked her over. He spotted the bruise on her leg that was distinctly a stair print. Holly saw him look, and crossed her legs so that it was out of sight.

"Uh-huh." He replied, bending down to view her leg. "Then what's this?"

"Oh that" she said confidently "I slipped on the stairwell on the way back from dropping off some papers, that's all"

He searched her again and said "Fine. But since we cant prove you did-"

"Or didn't" Holly interjected

"Or didn't collapse, I am ordering you to go home for the day."

Holly's eyes widened with surprise "But I'm just fine!"

"Home Short, and that's an order."

Holly glared at him, then hopped down off of the table mostly landing on her right foot, since she collapsed on to her left one. She walked out of the double doors, and into Trouble, who was listening through the door.

"What are you doing Trouble?" Holly yelled as the door shut behind her.

"Holly Short! You lie like a dog!, And what for?" Trouble yelled back.

"Oh enough with that! Aren't you gonna walk me home like a gentleman?"

Trouble sighed. "Holly, I've gotta get back to work."

"Fine, I get it, see you around trouble. Have fun working"

Holly limped off down the hall leaving Trouble just standing there in the clinics office, wondering what in the Hell to do next. 'I should really go chase after her like an old romantic' Trouble thought 'No, no, she wouldn't like that. But she might be ill, and with her uniform on, going down the streets of Haven…' He made up his mind then and there and jogged down the hallway of cubicles. When he finally got to Hollys' office, He saw Holly walking off down the hall, pulling the strap of her bag up onto her right shoulder. Before he kept going, Trouble saw her very subtle nervous twitch. She was letting her hand hang by her hip, but she was tapping the side of her leg in counts of five. Trouble let it go, thinking it could've been from just a nerve racking day. He shook his head slightly then took off down the hall after her.

Before he was within five feet of Holly, she called back over her shoulder:

"Finally make up your mind?"

He slowed down next to her and replied with a smile "Well, I'm guessing that Ashley and I don't have lunch plan in an hour and a half, so I have some time to kill".

Holly laughed and said, "Yeah, well, that's good cause I need someone to hold", Holly slowed down and rang her arms around his neck slowly, while smiling up at him. She sighed and closed her eyes. Holly grabbed his hand and slipped the bag down onto it slyly. As soon as it safely made it onto Troubles arm, Holly dropped the remaining arm from his neck, and let go of his hand. She finished her sentence by saying "My bag. Its getting really heavy, you know?"

Trouble stopped smiling and glared at her.

"Well, come on, lets go Trouble!" Holly said starting to walk off again

Trouble sighed at himself, how he could be mesmerized by this girl, so easily, like Ashley never could.

He started walking with Holly. The whole walk back to her house was quiet, they were both smiling, but didn't dare look at each other. Holly might just glance over but that was it. Before then she didn't realize how much he meant to her, or how much Trouble meant to she.

Once they got back to Holly's apartment, they walked in and finally started talking again. They laughed about what happened when Holly was captured by Artemis, and her great escape. They talked about how Trouble met Ashley. And they sighed a bit over Commander Root, but past the subject quickly.

They finally sat down at the kitchen table, and had some real conversation like they hadn't had for years. Holly got up and walked over to her refrigerator and said:

"So wait. Tell me again", she giggled mid-sentence, "How did we meet? I remember it much differently" she opened the fridge and grabbed two drinks.

"Well," he said "You see, we were at the LEP academy and Vein and I got in a fist fight over Rebecca Alicia, don't ask me why we did, but then you walked by."

"Now this part is true, next part I don't think so Trubs." Holly winked at him as she slammed the fridge with her hip and walked over.

"Now, now Holls, it is true. We got in a fist fight at the academy, and very, very unfortunately you happened to be walking by. I saw the look on your face change from 'fight, fight!' to 'Oh Hell no', as I took a punch to the jaw.

"This is still true, go on" Holly sat down across from Trouble at her dinner table, and slid him an ice cold beer.

Trouble popped the lid open as he said " And then, you walked up to us and smiled ever so deviously. You walked in front of Vein and grabbed his collar. You pulled him down to eye level and said "Stay right there, OK?". Vein did what you told him and, stayed bending over slightly. You grinned and said "Now sweetie". You stepped back a few feet and let your bag drop to the ground, and balled your fist behind your back. Everyone else was already picking up there bags and starting to leave, until you brought your arm around, and punched him in the jaw."

Holly chuckled as she remembered the satisfying thwack

" I was in the middle of thanking you, I remember I said, "Thanks, its Holly right?", and before I could finish 'right', you decked me flat, then picked me up off the ground and said, "No, it's recruit Short to you Kelp"."

"Yes, okay, okay, it's all true, now I remember how you instantly grabbed your neck, and laughed nervously." Holly said "Ah, the look on the faces of the people who were walking away, when I punched both of you. They whipped around so fast as I punched Vein. By the way, weren't you supposed to be over at Veins twenty minutes ago?"

Trouble jumped up from his seat, and grabbed his coat, "Damn it!, I completely forgot!".

Holly got up and walked over to the door. She opened the door for Trouble, with out saying a word as he walked over. Trouble stood in front of her and looked at her, half smiling, half frowning. Holly air punched at his face and ribs playfully not looking him in the eye. She slowed down, and dropped her open palm on top of his head lazily. She grabbed his hair, and pulled him down to eye. Holly looked at him the same way she looked at him in the police plaza, only this time with true sincerity.

As Trouble leaned down, Holly's phone ran. Out of instinct she grabbed the phone, and looked at the caller ID. It was Foaly. She punched the answer button and said:

"What the Hell is so important that you have to call when I'm off work, for the first day in two months?"

"Um…" Foaly replied

"Yeah, um" Holly muttered to herself.

Trouble looked down at her and mouthed goodbye. Holly pulled the phone down and pressed it against her chest, and whispered:

"See you tomorrow".

Trouble walked out and closed the door behind him, as Holly put the phone back up to her ear to hear the name…

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Okay, soooo sorry about this non-action-packed-chapter-that-was-a-little-gushy. But it was only this way Cause Ima setting it up for the next chapter… J